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He said: “We will leave the European Union but I suspect not on the terms that I would have liked but I’m also beginning to think it will be on terms that Ireland won’t like because the one country that gets the most affected by Brexit after the United Kingdom is the Republic of Ireland.”

The MEP said Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was a very good operator.

“He’s a real smoothy, he’s a bit like the Irish Tony Blair. That’s a compliment,” he said.

“It seems to me in these negotiations he’s taking the Brussels side of this against Britain and not the one that’s in the best interests of this country.”